Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] including Kirkpatrick, Schultz, Meese and Webster of the FBI. The major themes here are: The Soviet Union is behind world terrorism; the PLO is a major Soviet agent in funding and encouraging world terrorism. The minor theme is, of course, that the Soviet Union was behind the attempted assassination of the Pope. But covertly […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
David Black, Vision, London, 1998, £9.99 pb I enjoyed this book hugely, and I’d recommend it to anyone remotely interested in the politics of psychedelia – apart from anything else, there are stories here you almost certainly won’t have heard. However, overall it aspires to more than it can deliver. As the title implies, the … Read more
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
The assassinations of the 1960s A recently discovered sound recording of the assassination of Robert Kennedy shows that there was indeed a second shooter in the room. At least 13 shots were fired according to the analysis by Philip Van Praag, an expert in the ‘forensic analysis of magnetic media recordings’. Sirhan Sirhan’s gun could … Read more
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] Movement organiser suspected on the fascist right of having Special Branch connections. (21) Marriner was subsequently exposed as an infiltrator of some skill, having become the election agent of Labour M.P. Brian Walden and his successor John Severs at the time of the Birmingham Ladywood by-election in 1977. In early 1977 the British Movement […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead (Sheridan Square Publications, New York, 1986) When the Turkish Grey Wolves hold rallies they howl collectively. So, at times, do journalists of the ‘free press’. In 1979 Edward Herman wrote After the Cataclysm with Noam Chomsky in which they shredded Western … Read more
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] an interview with the AIDS theorist Alan Cantwell, and some shorter pieces on the Waco siege, the Danny Casolaro story, and the death of the British MI6 agent Ian Spiro. A $5.00 bill should elicit a sample copy from Paranoia, PO Box 3570, Cranston, RI 02910, USA. (Subs outside the U.S. $24.00 for 4 […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, … Read more
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
The Diana inquest – the people’s verdict? Well we now know who didn’t do it. It wasn’t the Royals. Not that they and their associates don’t have past form when it comes to helping family members into the next world. George V was given a fatal injection on his deathbed in order that news of … Read more
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] Davis Books, PO Box 1107, Aptos, California CA95001 1107 USA. Goodies to look out for: Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon, Robert Sam Anson Rogue Agent: The Remarkable Career of Edwin P. Wilson, James Goulden Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, Jim Hougan Tom Davis also stocks back issues of […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] that the assassination was widely known about in advance, and by low level “street people’ — a stripper, a waitress, a small-time right-winger and a minor intelligence agent. The assassination conspiracy was leaky. This suggests that we are not dealing with a professional job by the intelligence services or the Pentagon. It is hard […]